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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Watch the speedruns some day, you'll be surprised by how breakable the game is!

    Watch the speedruns some day, you'll be surprised by how breakable the game is!

  2. Comment on YouTube has a new video player in ~tech

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    Depends on who you ask, right? You're downloading it in the process of watching it in the first place, but youtube keeps doing their hardest to break yt-dlp and equivalent, thereby breaking a lot...

    Depends on who you ask, right? You're downloading it in the process of watching it in the first place, but youtube keeps doing their hardest to break yt-dlp and equivalent, thereby breaking a lot of things that rely on youtube video "integration". I'm sure they don't care so much about the copying aspect of it rather than their primary goal of one day being able to force users to watch fifteen ads before every five minute video.

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  3. Comment on YouTube has a new video player in ~tech

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    Youtube was fully down for a while on wednesday, and I read something about newer and exciting anti-download protections, so there just might have been a big backend upgrade too.

    Youtube was fully down for a while on wednesday, and I read something about newer and exciting anti-download protections, so there just might have been a big backend upgrade too.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on YouTube has a new video player in ~tech

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    I blame Netflix for pioneering the "0.5pixels is enough for a uniform contrast outline" fad, which everyone else copies. Give me a thick black outline any day please. I attempted to send Netflix...

    I blame Netflix for pioneering the "0.5pixels is enough for a uniform contrast outline" fad, which everyone else copies. Give me a thick black outline any day please. I attempted to send Netflix feedback on the accessibility issues caused by their uniform subtitle style, but was ignored. I guess only a tiny amount of users would change their subtitle style in the first place.

    The old youtube player, which I still see for now, uses a semitransparent gradient, which will also do the job just fine. I guess the geniuses at Youtube removed the gradient and didn't think about making changes to compensate for low contrast between the time text and bright frames?

    10 votes

  5. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    As someone who uses gimp regularly: There are things it does really well, and things it's ridiculously, inexplainably bad at. I know how to use selections and paths and I do use them on occasion,...

    As someone who uses gimp regularly: There are things it does really well, and things it's ridiculously, inexplainably bad at. I know how to use selections and paths and I do use them on occasion, but if I need to draw with simple shapes, typeset (do text things) or manage the positioning and alignment of a large number of shape and text objects I just switch to another editor.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What happens when the internet goes out at your work? in ~tech

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    When I worked at an ISP, I got... extremely tiny discounts on extremely outdated phones... Deals strictly worse than anything available on amazon. Job perks!

    When I worked at an ISP, I got... extremely tiny discounts on extremely outdated phones... Deals strictly worse than anything available on amazon.

    Job perks!

  7. Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society

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    I don't have this problem, thankfully, but as I understand it, young people already do all of this and they still can't afford a home in a lot of places (usually places with jobs).

    We drove used cars until they died. We rarely ate out and cooked low-cost meals at home. We dined on a lot of hamburger meat and hot dogs. We bought a small townhouse when we got married (...)

    I don't have this problem, thankfully, but as I understand it, young people already do all of this and they still can't afford a home in a lot of places (usually places with jobs).

    28 votes

  8. Comment on Horror games to play during October in ~games

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    If you like suspense and tension Visage is usually a solid choice. It's still 50% off for another 48h.

    If you like suspense and tension Visage is usually a solid choice. It's still 50% off for another 48h.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store in ~tech

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    Meanwhile, people want me to trust that it's perfectly fine for phones to require mandated android distros, apps to refuse to run on modded phones, and developers to have to register with google...

    Meanwhile, people want me to trust that it's perfectly fine for phones to require mandated android distros, apps to refuse to run on modded phones, and developers to have to register with google before their apps are allowed to run...

    24 votes

  10. Comment on Grape glut: Too much wine across the world leaves tons of US grapes rotting this crush season in ~food

  11. Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv

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    Yeah, I'm reading through this whole discussion and much of it is based on a flawed assumption: I hate big studios. I hate the RIAA. I want these businesses to fail (and yet it's not gonna happen,...

    Yeah, I'm reading through this whole discussion and much of it is based on a flawed assumption:

    leading to no studios financially risking it on new bands in the future

    I hate big studios. I hate the RIAA. I want these businesses to fail (and yet it's not gonna happen, even without any third party white knights valiantly defending them). I understand there are a lot of non-artist jobs attached to the music industry that provide added value, and I respect the expertise of the people who do them, but I've seen "the studios" resist progress with everything they could, using every legal system as a cudgel against their musicians' listener base. As Weird Al wrote, doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl, they'll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are.

    The liberalization of music production and publishing has brought us far, but not yet far enough. The industry is still fiercely holding back progress. I remember the stories of people whistling songs while working a business and getting in trouble with performing rights' associations. What the hell? There still isn't a good music search engine. Stream it online and your video gets muted. You get a copyright strike in your e-mail. The only tenuous reason we're not still in the 1960s when it comes to music enjoyment is Youtube and its licensing deals, and even that doesn't work all that well most of the time. People attempt to construct projects around it, and a non-negligible amount can see years of work wiped out when a single artist wakes up in a bad mood and decides to flip a switch and get entire channels removed.

    It's a strange system where basically everyone other than total parasites are getting screwed in one way or another. But no one without a cult-like following will ever again generate the kind of revenue 20th century artists did(n't actually get for themselves) anyway, so I say burn it all down and let people perform and enjoy music in peace.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    How is the "principle of operations" different? In both situations light from the thing you're looking at is radiating into your eyes. Do you read physical books written in white ink on black...

    How is the "principle of operations" different? In both situations light from the thing you're looking at is radiating into your eyes. Do you read physical books written in white ink on black paper? If not, all the white in the paper is reflecting sunlight into your eyes.

    EDIT: I may have misunderstood your comment. What I mean is that light is light, and it's highly unlikely that the brightness of your screen is closer to the brightness of the sun than the brightness of the page you're reading, unless you're reading in the dark, in which case reading would be more difficult. /EDIT

    Here's a balanced article on the subject (with links). I think we've discussed this on tildes in the past.

    Here's a more recent one, also with links to various studies.

    As for the clearer benefits of dark mode, device battery is not a concern to me (I'm not usually on a battery-powered device) and f.lux is already dealing with the circadian and fatigue issues, so it comes down to personal preference and personal health issues.

  13. Comment on What "one-hit wonder" do you think has a discography worth exploring? in ~music

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    I've listened to their entire discography exhaustively in the car when I was attending university (up until Somewhere to Elsewhere). I can sing much of it too! Possibly my favorite american band.

    I've listened to their entire discography exhaustively in the car when I was attending university (up until Somewhere to Elsewhere). I can sing much of it too! Possibly my favorite american band.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    I never thought to try for another prompt. I was asked for the guitar cat.

    I never thought to try for another prompt. I was asked for the guitar cat.

  15. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    No one else drew the line at the panorama? No panorama for me, TYVM.

    No one else drew the line at the panorama? No panorama for me, TYVM.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    While we're on the subject, I will point out Firefox has a hidden setting that you can enable if you're truly concerned about fingerprinting. It will do things like randomize your timezone, fonts,...

    While we're on the subject, I will point out Firefox has a hidden setting that you can enable if you're truly concerned about fingerprinting. It will do things like randomize your timezone, fonts, etc. in order to make your fingerprint dynamic and thus unreliable to trackers. It's the strongest possible way I've found to defeat fingerprinting.

    1. Go to about:config
    2. Toggle privacy.resistFingerprinting to true

    Now, do I recommend the setting? It depends. It can be kind of a hassle when you're trying to use websites/webapps that legitimately need those things...

    11 votes

  17. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I was concerned about this until I found out the real problem is the list of fonts installed in my system... It's unique.

    I was concerned about this until I found out the real problem is the list of fonts installed in my system... It's unique.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    Another dark mode hater here. (but I do use f.lux for the sake of my eyes). It's objectively easier to see things clearly in light mode for the same reason it's easier to see out in the sun than...

    Another dark mode hater here. (but I do use f.lux for the sake of my eyes).

    It's objectively easier to see things clearly in light mode for the same reason it's easier to see out in the sun than in a dark room, provided you don't stare directly at the sun. And light mode has always been a far cry from staring directly at the sun as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't tire my eyes.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Does anyone here enjoy a whisk(e)y ? in ~food

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    I could never stand the flavor of the stuff either. No disrespect meant to those who love it. I'll drink some other alcoholic beverages socially on rare occasions, but never whisky.

    I could never stand the flavor of the stuff either. No disrespect meant to those who love it. I'll drink some other alcoholic beverages socially on rare occasions, but never whisky.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Is OpenWRT worthwhile at home? in ~comp

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    By heavy duty I meant the router's ability to actually handle the bandwidth it's specced for. If you're happy with your current router, is there a reason to upgrade ahead of time? Ultimately if...

    By heavy duty I meant the router's ability to actually handle the bandwidth it's specced for. If you're happy with your current router, is there a reason to upgrade ahead of time?

    Ultimately if your use cases aren't going to change you may just have to wait and see how things work out in your new place since the situation will be different with regard to walls, layout, neighborhood radio noise, etc.

    4 votes